We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture – by art, if we’re lucky. And it’s amazing how often people have lost sight of this.
Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we’ve not seen before is a chance to be surprised.
A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it’s just pouring off the screen. Because they don’t often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don’t usually get a chance to work with other black people.
In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don’t – or can’t – travel in an entire career.
I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy – which, to me, is like being the fastest midget in the circus.
‘The Third Man,’ directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made.
The pleasantly crude ‘Hall Pass’ reminds us of what’s been missing from movies: Those squirm-inducing moments in comedy that produce enough discomfort that, at points, what we’re watching is half a heartbeat away from a horror film.
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the ‘Bourne’ movies, he burned himself down to a central nervous system – his focus fried away unnecessary calories.
Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it’s discouraging to see ‘Windtalkers’ evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged issues of racism and loyalty and made them relevant to contemporary times.
It’s true that a smile can take years off a person – not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono’s case.